A fun night out at one of Singapore's most celebrated nightspots, Zouk, ground abruptly to a halt after the police conducted a three-hour-long raid on early Sunday, June 29,2014 morning. Clubbers claimed that they were locked in and had their IDs checked before they were allowed to leave.

SINGAPORE - The raid started at about 2 am, with clubbers being held back and eventually released in groups of 20, said executive editor of pop culture website PopSpoken Skii Chung, 24, who was there with her friends. "There were no signs of unruly behaviour but after an hour or so, people in the crowd started raising their voices and asking why they couldn't be let out," said Ms Chung, who left the club at about three in the morning. The Straits Times understands that the raid ended at about 4.45am.